Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] at [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the risk to public order inherent in the defendant 's words or conduct that represents the harm struck at by the section . |
| 2 | It results in very rapid weight loss in most cases and generally the weight stabilises at around the ‘ ideal ’ level . |
| 3 | In hollow-casting by the direct lost wax method , a core is modelled in clay on a metal armature , the surface finished in wax to the thickness aimed at for the bronze . |
| 4 | The significance of this fact will be dealt with later ; suffice it to say here that the effect of the listing arrived at by the formulators of the received tradition is to raise this perfectly acceptable and important generalization to the status of an unbroken rule , to smooth away all complications and to present a perfectly articulated chain of Muftis , all of whom remained in office until their deaths . |
| 5 | The conduct struck at by the section may cause misery without being aimed at any particular victim . |
| 6 | Do these words refer to the actual expense incurred by the school in providing the benefit or do they refer to the hypothetical expense incurred by the school arrived at by the formula of dividing the total cost of running the school by the number of pupils attending it or to put it more shortly do they refer to the additional or the average cost of the provision of the benefit . |
| 7 | A single voice , if it comes from somebody sufficiently powerful , can overturn the consensus arrived at by the rest ( Sedgwick wryly ends his article by saying that the child 's name was put on the ‘ register ’ , the doctor having used his influence to overturn the decision made by the rest ) . |